Urban Planet
Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
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- Editors:
- Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Xuemei Bai, Australian National University, Canberra
- Niki Frantzeskaki, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
- Corrie Griffith, Arizona State University
- David Maddox, The Nature of Cities
- Timon McPhearson, New School University, New York
- Susan Parnell, University of Cape Town
- Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
- David Simon, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg
- Mark Watkins, Arizona State University
- Date Published: April 2018
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107196933
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Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.
Read more- Brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, helping readers build interdisciplinary approaches to the challenges of global urbanization
- Connects challenges and solutions on a local scale with wider scale drivers and policy frameworks, giving readers a much needed cross-scale perspective
- This title is also available as Open Access
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‘The fast-paced urbanization of the world significantly alters our attitudes towards space, particularly the ways we comprehend and organize them. This development is unprecedented in our recent history and calls for global reflections aiming at enlightening and supporting the implementation of local policies. Such is the ambition of Urban Planet book. To overcome the major challenges we are facing - particularly the ones dealing with climate and resilience - cities, such as Paris and many other cities around the globe, must understand and embrace their own complexity, so as to harness complexity to better serve the well-being of their citizens. It is by empowering the collective intelligence and sharing knowledge, that our cities will reinvent ways of living together, grounded in inclusiveness and the daily practice of democracy.' Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
See more reviews‘The authors of Urban Planet make [the] journey to the city more legible, highlighting the hopes and hindrances its brings, and the need for a parallel evolution of our science and systems if we are to reap the rewards of the great urban trek that we are now on.' Greg Clark, CBE, Urban Innovation Centre, London
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- Date Published: April 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107196933
- length: 514 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 180 x 34 mm
- weight: 1.09kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus. 65 colour illus. 8 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Dynamic Urban Planet:
1. Global urbanization: perspectives and trends
2. Embracing urban complexity
3. Understanding, implementing, and tracking urban metabolism is key to urban futures
4. Live with risk while reducing vulnerability
5. Harness urban complexity for health and wellbeing
6. Macro-economy and urban productivity
Part II. Global Urban Sustainable Development:
7. Rethinking urban sustainability and resilience
8. Indicators for measuring urban sustainable development and resilience
9. The UN, the urban sustainable development goal and the new urban agenda
10. Utilizing urban living laboratories for social innovation
11. Can big data make a difference for urban management?
12. Collaborative and equitable urban citizen science
Part III. Urban Transformations to Sustainability:
13. Sustainability transformation emerging from better governance
14. To transform cities, support civil society
15. Governance and the new politics of collaboration and contestation
16. Seeds of the future, found in the present
Part IV. Provocations from Practice:
17. Sustainability, Karachi, and other irreconcilables
18. What knowledge do the cities themselves need?
19. Banksy and the biologist: redrawing the twenty-first century city
20. Every community needs a forest of imagination
21. How can we shift from a imaged-based city to a life-based city?
22. A chimera called smart cities
23. Beyond fill-in-the-blank cities
24. Persuading policy makers to implement sustainable city plans
25. To live or not to live: urbanisation and the knowledge worker
26. City fragmentation and the commons
27. Cities as global organisms
28. From concrete structures to green diversity: ecological landscape design for restoring urban nature and children's play
29. Building cities: a view from India
30. The barking dog syndrome
31. Overcoming inertia and reinventing 'retreat'
32. Money for old rope
33. An aesthetic appreciation of tagging
34. Understanding Arab cities
35. Who can implement the sustainable development goals?
36. Achieving sustainable cities by focusing on urban underserved
37. The rebellion of memory
38. Cities don't need 'big' data – they need innovations that connect to the local
39. Digital urbanisation and the end of big cities
40. The art of engagement / activating curiosity
41. Nairobi's illegal city makers
42. Active environmental citizens with receptive government officials can enact change
43. The sea wall
44. Academics and non-academics: who's who in changing the culture of knowledge creation?
45. Private fears in public spaces
46. Leadership: science and policy as uncomfortable bedfellows
47. Sketches of an emotional geography towards a new citizenship
48. The shift in urban technology innovation
49. Greening cities: our pressing moral imperative
50. Recognition deficit and struggle for unifying city fragments
51. Disrespecting the knowledge of place
52. Broadening our vision to find a new eco-spiritual way of living.
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